Designing the Networked Organization (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED) - Softcover

Ken Everett (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1606491954 ISBN 13: 9781606491959

Publisher: Business Expert Press, 2011

Synopsis

This book explores how naturally connected organizations (NCOs) can survive and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable world using the principles of natural connectivity, organic growth and collaboration. It shows how naturally connected organizations are resilient through cycles of boom and bust. The book argues that the success of these organizations is in their design, and that they are the organizations of the 21st century. They demonstrate that a natural way of running a global business can work. This book builds on earlier work on networks and contributes to the Organizational Design field of management study. Naturally connected organizations are associations of companies and/or individuals, which function via collaboration, communication and connectivity for a shared purpose. NCOs use organic organizing principles rather than control mechanisms'. Traditional organizations embrace mechanical metaphors, the results of which are engineered or re-engineered organizations based on command and control. NCOs are based on natural, organic metaphors.

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About the Author

Ken Everett is the hub of a professional training network that spans 30 countries. His preparation for this was mixed. As a high-school teacher he experienced both the excitement of the classroom and the torpor of a public sector bureaucracy. Over 17 years at IBM he learned about the excitement of international marketing as well as the disciplines of a centrally-managed economy. After a period as Managing Director of Wilson Learning Australia he was enthusiastic about executive training, but also wishing to try it in a business of his own.

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1606491954
• ISBN 13: 9781606491959
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196